The Official Status Thread
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London in February
London is nice in August, and occasionally in July, but horrible most of the rest of the time. I'm hoping that Paris shouldn't be significantly worse than Vancouver for the time of year—it's a touch further South, and further from the sea. Should never have got married in January really... ;<wink>)
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We're going to Paris!
Paris is lovely. Not the warmest this time of year but then again that's true for a lot of places.
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London is nice in August, and occasionally in July, but horrible most of the rest of the time.
It's horrible all of the time.
Get the Central line in August and then see how nice it is.
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Status: just finished taking my 5 year old on one of our semi regular daddy-daughter outings. She wanted to go see Paddington. It was actually pretty good. She loved it, which was the whole point of the trip.
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There is evidence to say that getting a full 8 hours a night can shorten your lifespan. Not by much, but enough to be measurable.
The ideal amount is about 5-7 hours, so your 6.5 is about right ;)I seen stuff that shockingly says it depends on the person. I know that my FIL, for years, survived quite happily on something like 3 hours of sleep per night. He's slowed down a bit since his heart attack. I think the most famous extremes were Einstein (lots of sleep) and Edison (very little sleep).
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I've never been there, but I think this isn't the best time of year to go there.
As long as it's better than last week. I got to go there for a business boondoggle in June. That was an awesome time to go. Stays light forever and the weather was great for walking around and sitting on the sidewalk drinking beer.
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Status: my dwarves dug the input tunnel for the cistern reserve through the maintenance tunnel for the cistern. Time for ASCII diagrams!
____ ___________ ___ _ ___ Key: ####S_______________S#\RIVER/### S - staircase ####S###########S############### W - well ####S###########S############### G - floodgate ####S###########S############### _ - floor ####SG_RESERVE_GS#__W___________ # - solid rock ################S ######## M - miner (dehydrated) ################S ######## ################SCISTERN######## ################S__M____######## ################################
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Status: tried Civilization Beyond Earth. It doesn't draw a mouse cursor. Ever. It's impossible to click the "Click to Continue" and actually play the game because I can't locate the cursor. QUALITY.
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I've been playing this, and it draws the cursor here, despite warning that the installed graphics drivers are out of date.
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Well I'm pretty sure even the MOST incompetent developer wouldn't release it unless it worked on at least ONE computer in the universe.
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Status: tried a space bullet-hell called "C-Rush". When your laser energy is nearly out, the narrator says "low ham."
It took me an extremely long time before I realized it was saying "low ammo".
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Well I'm pretty sure even the MOST incompetent developer wouldn't release it unless it worked on at least ONE computer in the universe.
Evidently you've never played this:
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Status: tried a game called "Grimind". A bit too artsy for my taste, but actually pretty compelling. Might come back to this one. Not sure why you play as a hedgehog. (Or why games on of this type always have excellent backgrounds but very poorly-animated characters.)
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Status: Trying to use MCJIT in LLVM. Finding that it is a bit… unfinished.
After all, who would want to pass arguments to JIT-compiled functions from outside? Who would want the executable code to actually live on an executable page?
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If you have multiple monitors it may be rendering or positioning it on the wrong screen. I had lots of issues with that game and a multi-monitor environment.
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Sounds more like it's trying to install some fancy cursor and the graphics hardware (well… firmware probably) is choking on it.
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I made more than that fresh out of college with a BS more than 25 years ago.
i was making double that BEFORE i got my BS.
I think I was making more than that...in high school.
@me said:
HOLY SHIT TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND MOTHERFUCKING DOLLARS?!
Filed under: post-communist world problems
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Status: Afternoon tea, with a generous helping of 504 errors.
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None of the encoding errors in the logs, appears to have come good without any intervention
Our monitoring did pick it up, will look in detail in a week
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Status: made about 15 classes in my WPF project just to get a fucking bound listbox.
The Proper Way my ass.
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They were pretty common for several hours. Eventually most activity would go through — the front-end appears to be more robust than it used to be, which is great — but it took an absolute age.
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Status: made about 15 classes in my WPF project just to get a fucking bound listbox.
The Proper Way my ass.
I'm guessing a lot of converters?
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Some EventArgs, some ObservableCollection descendants to update the backing model, and ViewModels upon ViewModels upon ViewModels okay, so maybe it's not just a listbox, but not much else.
And then you need to hook up DependencyProperties and implement INotifyPropertyChanged and create proper RoutedEvents and ICommands and what the hell was wrong with WinForms.
disclaimer: I don't know shit about WPF, so maybe I'm Doing It Wrong, who knows
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My theory is it's a result of having my cursor on software-rendering due to using that color-adjusting Flux software. ... but point is, it's broken trash.
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Status: End of fiscal year BS is the worst. Fuck me, I should have categorized shit better as I went.
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IT Crowd re-run marathon.
Also: writing setting up deployment for web app.
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Quicklime
I kept wondering what that Apple turd of a media player had to do with this until I correctly parsed it.
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My theory is it's a result of having my cursor on software-rendering due to using that color-adjusting Flux software. ... but point is, it's broken trash.
I've seen Firaxis code have cursor rendering problems before. I suspect their code in this is
indeed broken trashsuitable for inclusion in Discourse.
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We're going to Paris!
Nice!
I think this isn't the best time of year to go there
Same weather as here ... wet and cold but not freezing, no snow. We did it a weekend in February a few years back ... I shouldn't worry about the weather. Enough to see/do when the weather is not playing nice.
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Status: My son has a 48 piece wooden picture puzzle and it always takes me far longer than it should to solve it.
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Status: My neighbor across the street has a 15 year old daughter. On xmas day a little Nissan car showed up with a bow on it. Today, there is a little Nissan car half and half out of the garage. The garage door is also closed.
I am going to take a WAG that driving lessons are not going as well as planned...
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The garage door is also closed.
like all the way or just mostly resting on top of the car?
also i really hope that Nissan was not new.... a new driver should never have a new car (no need to get a junker, but a used car is WAY easier to replace when they crash (likely, not guaranteed)
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a used car is WAY easier to replace when they crash
Easier? No. Cheaper? Yes. That's what insurance is for though.
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I couldn't start to learn to drive until I turned 17. Passing my test and getting a full driving license was awesome though; being able to drive to school (and home again after the electronics after-school club, with the windows open in the summer sun) was awesome. I don't think I would've been mature enough at 15 though.
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I wasn't really mature enough at 18 when I actually passed, having started a few month after being 17. A couple of near incidents proved that.
Definitely wouldn't have been at 15.
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Status: Beaten LLVM 3.6 and my code into submission; I've got back to being able to (pseudo1-)JIT code and run it, with predictable good performance resulting. It took way more effort than it should, and I found some weird problems (WTFs really) in LLVM's MCJIT, such as the complete failure to allow running JITed functions with arguments or the complete failure to mark the memory page containing the JITed code as executable despite that being the goddamn point of a JIT…
I didn't but it was close.
1 Only pseudo-JIT yet because I've not worked on hooking anything to apply the JIT to code by default. It has to be explicitly requested for now, which is just fine for testing.
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Easier? No. Cheaper? Yes. That's what insurance is for though.
i'll accept that correction.
they're also cheaper to insure.
usually by quite a bit.
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they're also cheaper to insure.
usually by quite a bit.
I think insurance might work differently here as that's not a given - the value of the car isn't the number 1 factor in the price.
Insurance is crazy at 17/18 - whether it's a brand new car or a few years old makes bugger all difference. A new car could be cheaper.
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Status: Just got out of a Dota 2 [spoiler]bot[/spoiler] game. My first 4 kills were stolen by an enchantress support. She disconnected and abandoned as soon as she died.
The game started with axe huskar safe lane, crystal maiden viper mid, off lane, and enchantress in the enemy jungle.
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Status: Glad that I don't have any meetings tomorrow with our seriously pissed-off CEO. He's a serious Packers fan.
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Seahawks!!!!!!!!!!
I hope that Super Bowl trophy likes the rain, 'cause it's gonna be here another year.
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Status: My son has a 48 piece wooden picture puzzle and it always takes me far longer than it should to solve it.
If the pieces fit as tightly as some of the wood puzzles my daughter's have, I can understand that. They can be a Belgian to get together.
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I think insurance might work differently here as that's not a given - the value of the car isn't the number 1 factor in the price.Insurance is crazy at 17/18 - whether it's a brand new car or a few years old makes bugger all difference. A new car could be cheaper.
Disclaimer: I used to work for a software vendor that specialized in insurance rating.
Disclaimer The 2nd: None of the below takes into account policies for classic cars. Those are an entirely different beast.
It varies widly from state to state and insurer to insurer. But there are some constants:
- The more expensive a vehicle is to replace or repair, the more expensive it is to insure. This means that pricey vehicles will have higher insurance premiums, but so will cheap vehicles with hard to get replacement parts.
- Age impacts your rates. Younger drivers get charged more, decreasing to a certain age, when it generally starts increasing again, though it never quite makes it back to the rates you pay in your teens.
- Gender impacts your rates. Males tend to pay higher rates, all else being equal.
Now, most policies tend to be rated based on driver-vehicle pairings. Many companies will rate based on who is the primary driver of each vehicle1. Some companies will determine the highest premium driver, and rate them with the highest premium car2. Then the second highest car and driver, and so on. If there are more vehicles than drivers they will be rated with the highest of lowest rated driver, depending on the company.
Of course there are lots of other factors that come in, but the end point is: a cheaper car will usually (but not always) cost less to insure.
1 You usually see this when the company needs to keep rates low to earn business. Think GEICO, Progressive, etc.
2 You usually see this from companies that cater to people who need SR-22 (basically, they have to provide continuous proof that they have insurance because they got caught driving without). These companies can drive the prices up because they know you don't have many options.
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Status: Not feeling it
Filed under: Double entendre mode unlocked
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Huh?
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There was a train of thought that led from what you said to that image...
...actually, no there was a train of thought that led from what you said to somewhere else and that image hijacked it...
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like all the way or just mostly resting on top of the car?
Like...the garage door was closed, she was pulling into the driveway, confused the brake and the accelerator and smashed it all to hell. She pushed the garage door in so far it broke a taillight and left a crease across the lift gate of her mom's minivan that was inside.
The mother asked me how to fix it. The only thing I could come up with was, "You don't fix this. It is busted all to shit. You replace this."
A good friend of mine owns a remodeling company. I called him and he sent some guys over, on a Sunday. We had dinner plans with friends, when we got home there were pieces of garage door in their yard that they Sawzalled out and they put up a temporary wall in its place for security. A lightly crumpled minivan and a crumpled to shit Nissan were parked in the driveway.